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Protoleptops Heinrich

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Ichneumoninae)

Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967: 71-72. Type species: Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967, by original designation. Apatetorops Heinrich, 1967: 79–81. Type species: Apatetorops magnificus Heinrich, 1967, by original designation. Synonymized by Townes and Townes (1973: 226).

 

Protoleptops angolae (Heinrich, 1967)

Protoleptops farquharsoni (Heinrich, 1967)

Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967

 

Protoleptops magnificus (Heinrich, 1967)

 

Protoleptops nyeupe Dal Pos & Di Giovanni, 2024 (Burundi)

Distribution

Angola, Burundi, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Dal Pos D, De Ketelaere A, Di Giovanni F. 2024. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new species from Burundi. ZooKeys 1214: 197–216. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1214.131071.

Heinrich, G.H. 1967. Synopsis and reclassification of the Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae of Africa south of Sahara (Hym.).Vol.I. Farmington State College Press. pp. 1-250.

Credits

Photographs © Augustijn De Ketelaere.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

  Next genus: Pseudevirchoma

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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